Ticket-holder



(No Model.) I L. J.BLADES.

TICKET HOLDER.

. No. 529,696. Patented Nov. 2'7; .1894.

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' U ITED STATES LEONARD J. BLADES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TICKET- PATENT OF ICE.

HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 529,696, dated November 27, 1894. Application filed March '7, 1893. Serial No.465,003- (IIo model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, LEONARD J. BLADES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, county 'of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in which-- Figure 1, is a perspective representation of a series of my improved ticket holders as in position for use. One holder is represented as supplied with tickets. Fig. 2, is a side elevation of one ticket holder in position on its supporting bars; Fig. 3, a perspective representation of the lower end of one ticket holder, showing the exterior of the back portion; Fig. 4, a plan view of the metal plate blank, as it is out preparatory to being formed into a ticket holder. Fig. 5, is a modified detail of the blank shown at Fig. 4.

I have heretofore secured Letters Patent for ticket holders, as followsz-Patent No. 145,388, dated December, 9, 1873; patent No. 161,093, dated March 23, 1875; patent No. 321,783, dated July 7, 1885.

My invention is an improvement on these several patents; and the nature and construction of the invention will be fully compre-. hended by reference to the following detail specification.

At Fig: 4, is illustrated a blank piece of tin plate, or sheet metal, which when formedas follows constitutes the ticket holder. K, represents the bottom'which has a width fully equal to the widths of the tickets the case is to hold. The back 0 is bent at right angles to the bottom K and is of such a width that the long straight line bounding the inner portion of the part F will equal the lengths of the tickets. The end portion E is bent at right angles to-the portion J, and the side portion J is bent at right angles to the bottom by means of lips D, made to engage a lower bar A, and their open end portions rest on a 'bar B, and the ends of the bars are to be,"

portion L is not so essential as to render the case inoperative, but when ordinary tin plate is employed the top portion L is required; and in any event it holds the tickets more evenly bunched.

At Fig. 4, and near to M, the corner of the .j

bottom K is slightly notched out, as a better means of giving a free outward movement to the ticket than at M Fig. 5. It is essential that these cases should be internally very smooth and true that the tickets may move down as'a solid body, and so that a ticket can be withdrawn without its being torn or defaced. These conditions are very di'tficult to secure in the construction of a ticket case of several parts united by seams or solder. The case formed of a single piece of metal plate is much cheaper, and as a whole, much better.

I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States? A ticket case formed of a single piece of sheet metal from the blank shown, the lower end portion E bent at right angles to the low side portion J, the portion J bent at right angles to the bottom K, the lower end portion F bent at right angles to the wider side portion 0, and the top portion L bent at right angles to the wide side, and the case combined with suitable supports as and for the purpose specified.

LEONARD J. BLADES.

Witnesses: I

J. J os. WRIGHT,

ARTHUR V. EADS. 

